Atomic-level control of the thermoelectric properties in polytypoid nanowires

Chemical Science

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 706-714

  Andrews, Sean C ^a,b   Fardy, Melissa A ^a,b   Moore, Michael C ^a,b   Aloni, Shaul ^b   Zhang, Minjuan ^c   Radmilovicbd, Velimir ^b   Yang, Peidong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC LAYER; COMPOSITIONAL FEATURES; CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENT; METAL PRECURSOR; NANO-METER-SCALE; NANO-STRUCTURED; POLYTYPOIDS; THERMAL PROPERTIES; THERMOELECTRIC FIGURE OF MERIT; THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL; THERMOELECTRIC PERFORMANCE; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ZNO;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ENERGY CONVERSION; GALLIUM; NANOWIRES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WASTE HEAT; ZINC OXIDE;

ELECTRIC WIRE;

EID: 79954589428     PISSN: 20416520     EISSN: 20416539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c0sc00537a     Document Type: Article

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